Gas and steam turbines often integrate hydraulic cylinders for valve-actuation purposes. Hydraulic cylinders usually can transmit extremely high force and precise position and force control within a much smaller package than electromechanical actuators....More

Hengli America Co. Inc., Naperville, Ill., announced the signing of its first distributor: TECO Pneumatic, Pleasanton, Calif. Hengli manufactures hydraulic cylinders with bores from 1½ to 59 in., strokes to 36 ft., and operating pressures to 10,000 psi. It also owns its own ductile iron foundry for its hydraulic valves and piston pumps....More

Kevin Cradduck is joinng the Fabco-Air Inc. team as Plant Manager. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and over 30 years of manufacturing and engineering management experience....More

A memorial service was held for Ned R. Stull on June 29 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Ned had served as associate editor for Hydraulics & Pneumatics beginning December 7, 1970 and retired as executive editor in May 1993. He wrote or edited hundreds of articles for Hydraulics & Pneumatics and also edited Basic Electronics for Hydraulic Motion Control, by Jack L. Johnson, P.E. ...More

Spectronics Corp. and Quaker Chemical Corp. have signed a strategic supply-and-market-development agreement for the global expansion of Quaker’s fire-resistant hydraulic fluids that incorporate FluidSafe, Spectronic’s unique fluorescent safety additive. Along with the new partnership, Spectronics is merging its Alerton subsidiary with the parent company and adopting FluidSafe under its Spectroline brand....More

A large cardboard baler at a paper mill started blowing return filter elements off of the filter housing. The baler chamber would start off with little cardboard in it, then the large baler cylinder would extend until cardboard was compressed enough to cause hydraulic pressure to reach 4,500 psi. The piston rod would then retract based on pressure, not stroke position, for the next cycle....More

In 2011, Jim Warneke, general manager, and Frank Laratta, manufacturing engineer, both arrived at Hanna Cylinders, Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Their first major project was to give Hanna a much needed “manufacturing face lift,” as they put it, to shorten production lead times....More